The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

The young Lovecraft went on to develop an unhealthily close relationship with his over-protective mother, who grew his hair long and dressed him as a girl. His father died when he was just five, after years in a mental institution, the collapse of his sanity perhaps brought on by neurosyphilis. Lovecraft was a disturbed and damaged man. Leaving the odious business of literary sub-genres aside, Lovecraft is an enormously influential writer, a fact that would have astonished him during his life, since for most of it he was almost completely unknown. So wrote Howard Phillips Lovecraft of what was to be expected of his best work, at the same time showing us why he is regarded as a figure of such significance in the works of science fiction, horror fiction, fantasy and weird fiction. Kati Nicholl, The Daily Express Booklet NotesĪ certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain – a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories read by William Roberts is full of monstrous beings and dark deeds – gorgeous!

Naturally, they are worshipped by a few humans who kid themselves that they can control events. Lovecraft is the master of dark tales, envisaging that in a time before this the Earth was inhabited by evil gods who now wait to retake all that was theirs. Lovecraft, which includes the title story, plus The Hound and The Dunwich Horror.

Here we have “The Call of Cthulhu” by classic horror author H.P. He once narrated Strangers on a Train, which I rank as one of the 10 best audiobook recordings ever. One of our favorite narrators, William Roberts is a film actor whose audio projects are rare delights. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness (unabridged) The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories (unabridged) The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness (unabridged) The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Stories (unabridged) Included in this title

The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft